Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris has won the PEN / E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing. for her “The Butchering Art; Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine.”
The Butchering Art Wins PEN / E.O. Wilson Prize
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Items of Interest Worth Remembering
Sy Montgomery on Mongabay Newscast
Birds do it. Bees do it. Even octopi down in the seas do it… And if you listen to the most recent episode of the Mongbay Newscast in which the first guest is Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness and many other interesting books […]
The Naturalist Podcast
The other day, my Twitter feed told me that I should download and listen to a podcast with which I was unfamiliar. As I have spent quite a lot of time and effort curating my Twitter feed so that it provides me with useful information, I took it’s advice and downloaded the most recent episode of “The Naturalist Podcast.”
The Scoop on Lunar Exploration
…it was a refreshing breath of fresh air indeed to turn on the recently published Episode 477 of Astronomy Cast: “State of Exploration: Once and Future Moon” and hear Dr. Pamela Gay’s intelligent, insightful, and delightfully candid assessment of the history of lunar exploration.